This thread is for *PYRAWORD* chat and general comments.

Well, I have to comment: I am just amazed and astonished at how you all do this!! My grandmother weaned me on word scrambles and puzzles from a very young age, so I thought I would jump in on this game too - but I sit here with the last word in front of me and play and play and cannot come up with anything. Then I go back and see what you all have done. It's phenomenal!!! You guys are great!!!!

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Watch for "round" 2 of this week to start 24 hours after the last post.
The starting times (except for Mondays) should always be random. Luck might have it that you can post in the 4 or 5 word sections of the Pyrawords.
Everyone should be on even playing ground, at least that was the intention. =)
So far it seems to be playing well.

I know I said I was intending on finalizing the rules last weekend. And that the game started a few hours late. my bad.
I think the rules are good as they are. Maybe over the course of March, if/when new issues come up, I will amend the rules.
Less rules, the better is my motto for now.

A big thank you to all who played last week during the beta-test round of my game!
The final scores were:
A tie!
Thunder2........4
Sypher...........4
MrYeti........2
Auschic34...2
anniedt.......2
gtho4.........2
Jabberwock.2
Pling..........1

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I declare you all the winners!

[This message has been edited by Jabberwock (edited 03-06-2001).]

Can I challenge Syphers word it is not in the Onelook dictionaries

Oh yes it is....that is where I got it from !!

Hey Sypher....sorry I tried copying it into Onelook...I didn't trust my typos and it still says it isn;t there

Pling

Oh look...I've found another loophole.....hehehehehe

The rules state it must be found using 'Onelook'....but the rules do not state if the word must be ENGLISH !!

If you go to 'OneLook' and type my word in and select 'All Dictionaries'...you will see that my word exists !!

No need....... I give up....my only challenge and I failed......boo hoo

Don't feel bad....it was a good challenge....At least it shows another grey area in the rules. I presume the rules will be amended once Jabberwock reads this thread.

your defence is non sequitur imho
Senor Snake, this is what the rules say

quote:

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Gameplay
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Pyraword is a word game played from Mondays 12:01 am to Fridays 11:59 pm funtrivia time (with varying Saturdays). A "match" begins with a 3-letter word. (This word will be the first 3-letter from the daily headlines at Canada.com
*note: 3-letter words will never be used more than once.
Players must change one letter, and add one letter, to form a new, valid word.
An example of gameplay can be seen in the title of this page.
A"round" ends when someone posts a word that no one else can expand on, within the span of 24 hours.
Then a new "match" would begin. This is where we may need Saturday to allow a word to pass the 24-hour mark.
New "matches" will always begin Mondays

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the rules state that the game begins with an English word from canada.com .. which is a site written in English, this thread is written in English, the rules are written in English, therefore you can't follow an English word in this game with one from a foreign language ... checking the validity of a word at jw's site is to ensure that we can't use a scrabble dictionary or the OED or something else .. btw who's your solicotor lol

I support pling's challenge
and challenge your defence

Sypher, you remember the CEO who rang in the car when we were driving to Dreamweave's place with auschic? many years ago we were playing Pictionary at his place and his team were losing .. one of his team-mates threw their pencil out the window and when I said "you need a pencil to play" that guy said "where in the rules does it say I have to climb out the window and get it" or something like that .. he relented when our team gave him our spare pencil, but he then broke it, and ours, and threw the sharp bits out of the window, but still had a pencil; now no-one had a pencil that would write .. "where does it say in the rules that I have to sharpen the pencil" .. we couldn't find one in the rules and the game was abandoned - none of us had ever seen anything like it before including the CEO who, obviously, wasn't gonna help our team as we were the opposition

you wanna know what this bloke did for a crust? he was the international seller of coal for a huge coal company here in oz, and spends something like 30 or 40 weeks travelling overseas negotiating with customers, and travels with 2 valid oz passorts because of the countries he visits (you get the drift) .. anyway, his favourite negotiation tip he told us about was this: when he arrived in the customer's country his return leg on the ticket was always open, so if the customer wanted to hard-ball and drag the negotiations right out to the last hour before his flight back, and force a quick settlement of the deal at a cheap price, the customer couldn't, it was open! i.e. there was NO flight back. He said he learnt it from Henry Kissinger. He told us about a 3 day trip to one country (I won't name it here) which lasted 27 days as he wouldn't relent. Apparently he is one the most frequent flyers with Qantas and knows half the pilots and crew
.. a piece of trivia I thought I'd share with you!

jw, you're on mate

It doesn't say 'English Word' George....It just says a word from the headlines....

Last time I looked....A headline can have words from any language !! Also, doesn't half of Canada speak French ?

understood, but the whole site www.canada.com is in English
jw's gonna find out how you felt adjudicating in Snake!
anyway mate, I'm off to bed, catcha 'moro

p.s. do him a favour and let him know some of the other nooks and cranies players found in snake

A spanish entry!
WTG Sypher, you've done it again.
I will amend the rules this weekend(no really I will), to include a rule that says the entry must be at Onelook.com, under "definitions in English".
For now, Sypher's word is valid and will stand as the bottom of the Pyraword.
I should start awarding half pointts to anyone who finds a loophole in the rules. (course Sypher doesn't need any help getting points in this game )
Any other breakthroughs regarding omissions in the rules?
I was hoping to have there be at least 3 rounds per week, but even though I changed the time limits to 12 hr, 24 hr for a final word, this game is still only gonna make it one round.
hmmm
Another change in when a player can post and/or change to the 24-hr limit, might be in order.... any opinions?

Nah, leave it as it is...and keep the score running for the whole month....At least then some players could get back into the game.

The 12 hour time-limit is great, overcomes all of the time differences....

Great Work JW !! If I find any more loopholes...I'll be sure to let you know after I have exploited them....hehehehehe

Geez, this is a tough room!!!!!

Don't worry Mama...this room has padded walls !!

ok, I was thinking...
how about dropping the whole Mon-Fri aspect of Pyraword???
Just an open-ended round until the end of the month.
This game doesn't really need to be bound by weekdays only..
I'll think more on it tomorrow, but I think I like the idea.

And ya, I will put in the rules that there will be Monthly winners, rather than weekly, since a round takes sometimes a week to finish.

Sounds good to me JW. Maybe you'll get some new blood in here over the weekend. (Not literally you know. Mama the rooms not that tough).

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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. --Kaiser Welhelm

Blood.....was Blood mentioned.....Are we recruiting Vampires now ?

SCOLDERS - Looks like a plural....Which I think makes this word INVALID....

What happens now ?

Hey Sypher

is it plural......because it is a verb ie: I scolder, He scolders etc....

I thought about challenging then decided it was a verb.....now I am just confused.....lol...it doesn't take much

Pling

Howabout this for another challenge on 'Scolders'....It doesn't appear on the 'Difition in English' dictionary on 'Onelook'.
That by itself means it must be Invalid !!

....lol

jw

inadequacies

has the schnakemaster (who supports Spurs) entered a plural?
it's a noun, I think, as in:
"her inadequacies disappeared the day she was married"